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Jim Jordan becomes new House GOP leader after closed-door vote, defeating Steve Scalise

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will be President Donald Trump's top defender in Congress next year after winning a closed-door election for minority leader on Tuesday, sources told Fox News Digital.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 7 sources•1 min read•Updated November 10, 2026, 9:13 PM UTC

Key points

Jordan will serve as minority leader under a new Congress that begins next year, where Democrats will have their largest margins in both the House and Senate in years.
Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan to succeed Mike Johnson as GOP minority leader, promising unity and a robust opposition.
Jordan over Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, House Republicans signaled a desire for fresh leadership after their biggest election losses in decades.

House Republicans elected Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as their new leader Tuesday, handing the reins of the battered GOP conference to one of its most prominent conservative firebrands.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced the day after Election Day he would not run for minority leader in the 120th Congress.
He will be responsible for shaping the party’s strategy against the waves of investigations Democrats have promised to open into Trump’s second term, as well as their vows of an ambitious legislative agenda, regardless of whether it has the president’s support.
“As for the articles themselves, Iran, the cartels, Maduro, Yemen, everyone was a lawful operation ordered by the commander-in-chief, then ordered by myself, notified to Congress and executed by American warriors who did their jobs,” he said.
We sank the boats carrying poison into our communities.
JORDAN EMERGES AS POTENTIAL NEXT GOP LEADER IF DEMS SEIZE HOUSE Republicans huddled for a candidate forum on Tuesday morning where all GOP lawmakers running for leadership positions were peppered with questions by their colleagues.

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